Rudeness Doesn't Pay

sorry kid

Published on February 19, 2008 By MasonM In Blogging

I just walked over to the c-store to pick up a six pack. One the way over I noticed several kids on bicycles and one, a black kid of around 9 or 10, was pushing his. As I drew closer I saw that both his tires were flat. I felt sorry for the kid and asked him what happened to his tires. I intended to offer to check out the tubes and patch them for him if needed as I have a full tire repair kit on hand.

The kid was so damn rude that I immediately changed my mind about helping him out. I told him so. He tried to say he was sorry, but managed to even be rude about that. I told him that being rude doesn't pay and that nice people aren't willing to help rude people. I gave him a short lecture about how being rude to people just doesn't pay and that he'll get a lot farther in life by being polite to people than by being rude becausse nobody likes rude people.

I feel sorry for the kid having two flat tires on his bike, but I wasn't about to help him out after he was so rude to me. Hopefully the kid learned something about how to deal with people. Who knows?

Maybe I'm a big old meanie for not helping the kid anyway, but I'm human and like most humans I am simply not inclined to help out someone, even a kid, when they are so damn rude.

Comments (Page 1)

MasonM

on Feb 19, 2008

What he doesn't learn at home he will have to learn from the world. It is so sad that a child that young has such an attitude. Good on ya Mason for helping him with a life lesson. It'll take him farther than two patched tires.

Thanks, I hope so.

CharlesCS

on Feb 19, 2008

I hear ya, just today my wife told me on her way home from work, at the train station, a child about the same age as my older son, about 9, told her something really nasty about what to do with his private parts and her mouth. She said she could not believe a child would be so direct to her in that manner. I was mind boggled when she said it.

MasonM

on Feb 19, 2008

Kids say the darndest things. Their parents need to be kicked in the teeth.

Zoologist03

on Feb 19, 2008

Good on ya Mason for helping him with a life lesson. It'll take him farther than two patched tires.

Hmm, I was going to come up with a clever quip...but damned if I can't top that one.

Sometimes a reality check is in order. I believe this was the right thing to do. Someone snaps at me after I try to be nice...well, to put it bluntly- fuck'em.

~Zoo

MasonM

on Feb 19, 2008

Sometimes a reality check is in order. I believe this was the right thing to do. Someone snaps at me after I try to be nice...well, to put it bluntly- fuck'em.

That's pretty much how I see it too.

Trudygolightly

on Feb 20, 2008

I think ya did great by telling him how it is.

If ya'd been rude to him, it would have just confirmed his already negative belief in the world.....
this way he might learn....sure hope so.

MasonM

on Feb 20, 2008

I think ya did great by telling him how it is.If ya'd been rude to him, it would have just confirmed his already negative belief in the world.....this way he might learn....sure hope so.

Yeah I didn't want to be rude or nasty with the kid, I just wanted to let him know that I did see his attitude as acceptable and that he lost out on something because of it.

Moderateman

on Feb 20, 2008

MasonM

on Feb 20, 2008

I think ya did great by telling him how it is.If ya'd been rude to him, it would have just confirmed his already negative belief in the world.....this way he might learn....sure hope so.Yeah I didn't want to be rude or nasty with the kid, I just wanted to let him know that I did see his attitude as acceptable and that he lost out on something because of it.

Grr I can't edit my comment, but it should read that I didn'tsee his attitude as acceptable

MasonM

on Feb 20, 2008

I knew we were losing control of our children when I started hearing children threaten their parents with "go ahead hit me I will call the police and they will lock your ass up"things of that nature.

Yep.

Zoologist03

on Feb 20, 2008

They seem to forget that they'd have to go into foster care with people they don't even know if they lock mommy and daddy up for bullshit.

~Zoo

MasonM

on Feb 20, 2008

I knew we were losing control of our children when I started hearing children threaten their parents with "go ahead hit me I will call the police and they will lock your ass up"things of that nature.They seem to forget that they'd have to go into foster care with people they don't even know if they lock mommy and daddy up for bullshit.~Zoo

Since when do kids think that far ahead?

Zoologist03

on Feb 20, 2008

Since when do kids think that far ahead?

Hmm, you have a point.

~Zoo

MasonM

on Feb 21, 2008

Since when do kids think that far ahead?Hmm, you have a point.~Zoo

Yeah that's why I wear a hat.

dynamaso

on Feb 21, 2008

Good on you for offering and then rescinding because of his rudeness. Hopefully it will be a lesson learnt.

I saw a group of kids about the same age recently following an old guy down the footpath and spitting on his back. Spitting! They were all laughing until a policeman grabbed one of them. I wish you could have seen the look on their faces.

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